Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Gray Silver, 64, farmer, banker, lobbyist, onetime (1907-15) West Virginia State Senator, onetime head of U. S. Grain Marketing Corp. of Chicago; of a heart attack; in Martinsburg, W. Va. As Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 1920, Lobbyist Silver became known as "the man who runs the farm bloc...
...Beach: "The operating companies are the source of income." Senator Gibson: "And the source from whence their income comes is the consumer? " Beach: "Well, that's true." If Associated Gas was unpopular before last week's investigation, afterward other utility men could have wrung its neck. Said Lobbyist Gadsden for the Committee of Public Utility Executives: "It is, to say the least, unfortunate that representatives of any company should so depart from the standards set by the utility industry in general. It is acts like this, committed by a small number of companies, which have brought discredit upon...
Further testimony disclosed that, as everyone already knew, the Power lobby had employed its Constitutional right of petition to influence Congressmen against the bill by letters, telegrams, speeches, broadcasts, advertisements. But no whit of evidence was turned up to prove that Lobbyist Gadsden, descendant of the U. S. Minister to Mexico who negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, had used a single dollar of his funds to purchase votes or otherwise corrupt the Congress...
...Washington lobbyist is worth his mimeograph machine unless he is a master at the game of political trading. No Washington lobby is more numerous or active than that of the American Federation of Labor, with its fine marble headquarters overlooking a tiny public park adorned with a statue of the late great Samuel Gompers. But the records show that the A. F. of L. has a poor score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation...
...Union's Michigan State Committee at the Cleveland rally. He left Cleveland with neither a Michigan nor an Ohio committee named. He had decided meantime that the lieutenants of his political machine would, like Ku Klux Klansmen, be masked in secrecy. Reason, as explained by his Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Wrard: two friends had joined Huey Long at the Farmers' Holiday Convention in Des Moines (TIME, May 6), had thereby embarrassed Priest Coughlin by giving the impression that they were his ambassadors...